At an international conference this week, experts will work to chart a path forward as they tackle the promise and perils of ...

Now, scientists are pursuing what could be called nature’s Bizarro: Some labs want to construct cells with molecules ...

Some researchers are calling for strict limits, while others speak out against halting basic science prematurely.

This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should ...

As synthetic biologists, we have spent the last few decades in awe of the breakthroughs in the field. In the last fifteen years, synthetic biologists have stored books, images, and even videos in DNA, ...

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

Just when you thought you had enough to worry about, scientists came up with a new world-ending anxiety for us all. A dire warning about something nobody outside the relevant fields knew anything ...

In a recent study published in Science, a team of researchers investigated and discussed the potential roadblocks to and risks of "mirror life," where life forms are synthesized using biomolecules ...

Though mirror biology might lead to improved drugs and other innovations, scientists have warned against potentially ...